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Our Couples Counseling Program

We like to train couples and individuals who are genuinely motivated to change their lives.

Whether it’s for a marriage or any other important relationship, we specialize in helping people create greater harmony and ease between themselves and others.

We have a passion for helping highly-functioning couples reach a much deeper, richer level of relationship, as well as helping couples who seem hopelessly stuck, to break free.

We believe that the work of a couples counselor should be both deeply respectful of the client in their totality, and highly pro-active.

We practice marriage therapy in Mill Valley, as well as in the Pacific Heights area of San Francisco.

We have found that the couple relationship is among the most difficult – and enriching – of human experiences; and that the more tools and knowledge one has for dealing with it the more successful one will be.

“It wasn’t until I met Jonathan that I began to heal my childhood wounds and develop healthy relationships.” – Doris S. San Anselmo, CA.

Areas We Focus On:

Couple Communication

Conflict Resolution

Emotional Intimacy

Nurturing Self and Other

Healthy Sexuality

Infidelity

Healthy Parenting

Avoiding Divorce

Healthy Divorce

The Couple’s Relationship as a Journey Of Transformation

How We Work:

We explore and help undo the hidden causes and underlying structure beneath:

Communication difficulties

Constant fighting

Emotional walls

Infidelity

Sexual problems

Parenting issues

“After my affair, my wife and I almost divorced. Instead, Jonathan showed us how to deepen our marriage and truly enjoy each other.” – Daniel L. San Rafael, CA

The Path Of Awareness and Opening
We have a profound, non-sectarian interest in bringing what may be called spiritual practice into our work. By this we mean developing awareness, compassion, gratitude and an openness to the unknowable.

To follow such a path, while committing to a couple relationship, greatly enhances both spiritual practice and one’s relationship:

Opening to one’s partner is among the most powerful ways to accelerate and deepen spiritual understanding.

Deepening spiritual understanding is among the most effective ways to strengthen and enrich the couple relationship.

Two questions we have been especially curious about and attentive to in our own marriage, and which we especially enjoy assisting other couples with, are:

How to keep love fresh and alive for the duration – so that you are as devoted to each other on your 20th, 30th, or 40th anniversary as during your honeymoon?

How to keep the flame of romance and lover energy alive while devotedly raising children?

We approach each couple and individual gently and without judgment. Yet we are very active in helping you attain your goal.

Our Ultimate Goal
Everything about our work is designed to enhance your knowledge and facilitate your journey along the path of relationship.

Whether it’s called couple therapy, couple counseling, marriage therapy or relationship coaching, it comes down to the same thing: guiding individuals and couples to open their hearts and learn communication skills that will nurture and create harmony in relationship.

And we work with every kind of couple preference: straight, lesbian, gay, transgender, interracial, religious and non-religious.